Description of problem: I am using the update-testing repo. Which contains the 2.6.30 kernel series. Updating to a 2.6.30 kernel prevents me to start Xorg. Booting in to init 3 and then entering startx manually gives me a blinking Caps Lock. This is about a Thinkpad T400 running 32bit userland with 4GB RAM. # lspci 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 is broken kernel-PAE-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i686 does work xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.7.0-7.fc11.i586 xorg-x11-server-common-1.6.3-4.fc11.i586 How reproducible: allways Steps to Reproduce: 1. start the computer 2. wait Actual results: crash Expected results: gdm
I just experienced this as well on a Lenovo x61. It appears to be related to the new PAE kernel. kernel-PAE-2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686 works. kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 works. kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 does not work. # rpm -q kernel && rpm -q kernel-PAE && rpm -q xorg-x11-drv-intel kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 kernel-PAE-2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686 kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 kernel-PAE-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i686 xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.7.0-7.fc11.i586 As the original comment states, either booting into run level 5 or running startx causes a kernel panic when the x server starts. 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) Subsystem: Lenovo T61 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at f8200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Bridge: PM- B3+
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 521574 ***